Document management planning (SharePoint Server 2010)

These articles will guide you in planning the document management features of your solution that is based on Microsoft SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Server includes document management features that you can use to control the life cycle of documents in your organization — how they are created, reviewed, and published, and how they are ultimately disposed of or retained.

Content type and workflow planning (SharePoint Server 2010) describes how to plan content types, which are the SharePoint Server mechanism to define and share the attributes of documents, list items, and folders. This article also describes how to use the SharePoint Server workflow feature to design document-related processes.